Hello and welcome to Backchat, Nature's Monthly retrospective on those news stories that we just couldn't get out of our heads.

If you think of the regular podcast as a hard-hitting BBC news interview, then you can think of Backchat as a sit-down on the couch with Oprah,

really getting to the heart of the science and maybe even making you cry.

We're here to discuss the science we've been mulling over for the past month,

as well as science news coverage from elsewhere.

I'm Adam Levy, and joining me a three of Nature's journalistic crack team.

They are Lizzie Gibney.

Hi, Adam. I cover physical sciences from our office here in London.

And we have Richard Van Norton.

Hello, I'm Edith Nature's here in London. And we have Richard Van Norton. Hello, I'm Edit Nature's News in London.

And speaking from all the way across the pond in San Francisco, we have Monja Baker.

Hello, I cover issues of scientific reproducibility and scientific rigor.

Coming up, we take a look at some new results from the LHC.

Is it finally showing us something unexpected?

Theoretical physicists and science journalists alike are waiting with bated breath.

We're also going to talk about reproducibility, again.

This time a crowdsourced study has put 100 psychological findings under the microscope

to see what they're really made of.

Spoiler alert, not all 100 were reproducible.

And finally, Richard will be chatting back about interdisciplinarity, a word that not a single

piece of spell checking software on my computer believes is real.

First up to Geneva in Switzerland, where the LHC has some pretty exciting results,

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